Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below

A copy of which telephone directory inspired Chris Martin to write the Coldplay hit Yellow?

What was the Russian city of Leningrad renamed in 1991?

Winston Churchill called which Italian the “bullfrog of the Pontine marshes”?

Earl Grey tea gets its distinctive flavour and smell from oil of . . . what?

Xanadu is the Florida estate of the title character in which film, directed by and starring Orson Welles?

In 1665, which English mathematician and physicist calculated pi to 16 decimal places?

8 In Dik Browne’s comic strip Hägar the Horrible, who is Hagar’s wife?

Fifteen questions to get you thinking. The answers are below